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rejuvenate

[ri-joo-vuh-neyt]

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verb (used with object)

to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.

to restore to a former state; make fresh or new again: to rejuvenate an old sofa.

Physical Geography.

to renew the activity, erosive power, etc., of (a stream) by uplift or by removal of a barrier in the stream bed.

to impress again the characters of youthful topography on (a region) by the action of rejuvenated streams.

verb (used without object)

to undergo rejuvenation; revive.

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Origin:
1800–10; re- + Latin juven(is) young + -ate¹

Related forms

re·ju·ve·na·tion, noun

re·ju·ve·na·tive, adjective

re·ju·ve·na·tor, noun

un·re·ju·ve·nat·ed, adjective

un·re·ju·ve·nat·ing, adjective

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There are lots of things that can be done to rejuvenate skin.

The idea was to rejuvenate the field and convince biology students that taxonomy is still a viable science.

Iran's leaders think a nuclear weapon could rejuvenate their tired revolution.

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There are lots of things that can be done to rejuvenate skin.

The idea was to rejuvenate the field and convince biology students that taxonomy is still a viable science.

Iran's leaders think a nuclear weapon could rejuvenate their tired revolution.

The ingredients in organic bath salts rejuvenate your skin.

How to rejuvenate and transform overgrown, tangled shrubs.

For everyone who's blown out their ears with loud music, a bit of good news: gene therapy might rejuvenate your hearing.

Clear is now under new ownership that is trying to rejuvenate the program.

It has helped rejuvenate some of my lost attraction towards programming.

The task for this oldie is to rejuvenate the world's biggest car company.

To rejuvenate urban centers, look to teachers and entrepreneurs.

To rejuvenate an entire plant, cut it to the ground in early spring, before leaves appear.

Scientists and doctors hope they'll someday be used to regrow lost limbs and rejuvenate diseased organs.

It is only belatedly spending money to rejuvenate a retail branch network that for years suffered from underinvestment.

Rejuvenate spindly plants by cutting back hard in early spring.

Kurzweil gets phosphatidylcholine intravenously, on the theory that this will rejuvenate all his body's tissues.

We need to break this link to rejuvenate the local economies.

Rejuvenate old, overgrown plants by cutting a few of the oldest stems to the ground each year.

Fedoroff's attempt to rejuvenate the discourse on a vital issue that has been virtually ignored by policy.

The greenhouses enable us to recycle and rejuvenate plants for a second life.

Hydrocordaplyex will rejuvenate your muscles and return your physical stamina to that of a much younger man.

But they have proved a valuable way to rejuvenate industrial districts and boost communities that once relied on manufacturing.

And the river's annual floods rejuvenate grazing lands where southern tribes have long kept their cattle.

To rejuvenate overgrown or neglected plants, cut them to within a foot of the ground before new spring growth begins.

The two-year-old program uses corporate donations to rejuvenate landscapes along highways.

He must hope that a successful campaign against the insurgents might rejuvenate a floundering presidency.

These preliminary results might rejuvenate the idea of cooling stroke patients.

It is not clear whether that enforced break will rejuvenate or curtail a great career.

Schaeffer's efforts to rejuvenate its restaurant and attract.

McSweeney's has worked to rejuvenate the beauty of books at a time when many predicted the rise of the digital novel.

Indeed, such measures often rejuvenate and strengthen the pigeon population.

Fertility matters because new births rejuvenate populations.

She believes they help redefine, reinvent, and rejuvenate not.

It also aims to rejuvenate the overarching brand name.

If the government really wants to rejuvenate the population, it will need to loosen its policy.

They rejuvenate poor soil, allow excess water to drain away.

Other steps will be necessary to rejuvenate housing.

If governments anxious to rejuvenate their populations want her to do that, they can help in a number of ways.

It would suffer a short term loss itself but rejuvenate the economy more quickly.

There is also need to rejuvenate the old failed loans by supporting the case closely and helping out the candidate.

Far from being a burden, immigrant populations swell the tax base and rejuvenate communities.

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World English Dictionary

rejuvenate (rɪˈdʒuːvɪˌneɪt)

—vb
1.	to give new youth, restored vitality, or youthful appearance to
2.	(usually passive) geography
	a. to cause (a river) to begin eroding more vigorously to a new lower base level, usually because of uplift of the land
	b. to cause (a land surface) to develop youthful features

[C19: from re- + Latin juvenis young]

rejuve'nation

—n

re'juvenator

—n

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Word Origin & History

rejuvenate

1807, from re- "again" + L. juvenis (see young). Noun rejuvensecence "renewal of youth" is first recorded 1631.

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